Players are already finding creative solutions to Prologue: Go Wayback's grueling difficulty: 'You could just chug gasoline'
Prologue: Go Wayback! is probably one of the hardest survival games I've played in a while, but don't let the supposed difficulty put you off giving the survival roguelike a go. Because if the playtests revealed anything, it's that anything's possible when you have a pocket full of blackberries and access to a heat source.
«You just have to think outside the box,» senior artist Hakan Kamar tells me. «But people are smart. I think they understand how to do that.» Bold of you to assume I know where the box is, but I will say even I demonstrated a few moments of ingenuity while playing Prologue. At one point, I was outside in the middle of the night with no light source (I had accidentally dropped my torch and couldn't find it). But instead of just giving up and waiting until I froze to death, I equipped my ferrous rod and started striking the tool to make embers. These small sparks managed to provide just enough light for me to find my torch and then go on my merry way.
Due to the limited carry space that your initial backpack provides, you'll often have to make tough decisions about what you take and what you leave behind. So when you realise that you've left something quite important behind, it's good to know that you can at least get creative when times get tough.
«This guy didn't find a ferrous rod, so he couldn't make a fire,» lead designer Scott Davidson says. «But he worked out that he could turn the hob on the oven, where the pan is, and if you put a log on top of it, the log would catch fire because the hob is a heat source. We're not gonna ever tell people what to do, but it's the rules of the world, like, this is a heat source—therefore, it will heat things.»
These helpful tricks and tips also mean that some players can find little cheat codes and shortcuts to surviving in Prologue. «We had a playtest meta, which basically amounted to finding a jerrycan with gasoline in it and finding a lot of blackberries,» Kamar says. «So you'd have a backpack full of
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